One Book, One Coast: Japanese American Experiences During WWIILike this list

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• Together in Manzanar

  the True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in An American Concentration Camp

  Slater, Tracy

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  [Adult] Together in Manzanar tells the story of the painful choices and conflicting loyalties, the upheaval and violence that followed, and the Yonedas' quest to survive with their children's lives intact and their family safe and whole.

• The Poet and the Silk Girl

  a Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest

  Ina, Satsuki,

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  [Adult] Weaving together diary entries, photographs, clandestine correspondences, and haiku, psychotherapist and activist Satsuki Ina reveals how her parents navigated life, love, loss, and loyalty tests during World War II, and how the effects of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Grit

  From a Japanese American Concentration Camp Rises An American War Hero

  Suzuki, John,

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  [Adult] American Grit offers an inside perspective of the concentration camps of America and historic heroism of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team by giving readers a glimpse into the Japanese American experience during World War II. It is an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Not Strangers

  Tuininga, Josh,

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  [Adult] After being forced into internment camps during World War II, 12-year-old Hanako and her family leave their U.S. home and move to Hiroshima, Japan, to live on her grandparents' farm.

• Tokyo Rose--zero Hour

  a Japanese Woman's Persecution and Ultimate Redemption After World War II

  Frattino, Andre R., 1984-

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  [Adult] Tells the true story of Iva Toguri, a Japanese American woman who was visiting relatives in Tokyo shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Trapped in Japan, Iva was pressed to renounce her American citizenship, but refused. As war raged…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bridge to the Sun

  the Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II

  Henderson, Bruce, 1946-

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  [Adult] The true story of the Japanese American soldiers who helped fight the war in the Pacific in World War II

• We Hereby Refuse

  Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

  Abe, Frank,

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  [Adult] Three Japanese American individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds decided to resist imprisonment by the United States government during World War II in different ways.

• Facing the Mountain

  a True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

  Brown, Daniel James, 1951-

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  [Adult] From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and courage: the special Japanese-American Army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe; their families, incarcerated in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When Can We Go Back to America?

  Voices of Japanese American Incarceration During World War II

  Kamei, Susan H.,

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  [TEEN] An oral history about Japanese internment during World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from the perspective of children and young people affected.

• The Eagles of Heart Mountain

  a True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America

  Pearson, Bradford,

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  [Adult] A painstakingly researched account details the tragic and triumphant story of the Eagles, a high school football team from Cody, Wyoming's World War II Japanese-American incarceration camp.

• Displacement

  Hughes, Kiku,

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  [Teen] A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps.

• The Unsung Great

  Stories of Extraordinary Japanese Americans

  Robinson, Greg, 1966-

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  [Adult] Drawn primarily from Robinson’s popular writings in the San Francisco newspaper Nichi Bei Weekly and community website Discover Nikkei, The Unsung Great offers entertaining and compelling stories that challenge one-dimensional views of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Behind Barbed Wire

  Searching for Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II

  Kitagaki, Paul, Jr.,

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  [Adult] To better understand his parents and grandparents experiences in detention centers during WWII, Kitagaki tracked down the subjects of more than sixty photographs taken by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams and other photographers. This book is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Called Us Enemy

  Takei, George, 1937-

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  [Teen] Takei's firsthand account of years spent in a Japanese concentration camp, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Un-American

  the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II

  Cahan, Richard,

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  [Adult] The US government hired famed photographers Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and others to document the the rounding up and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Their photographs, exactly seventy-five years after the evacuation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Uprooted

  the Japanese American Experience During World War II

  Marrin, Albert,

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  [Teen] Uprooted takes a close look at the history of racism in America and carefully follows the treacherous path that led one of our nation's most beloved presidents to make the decision to round up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on nothing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Infamy

  the Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

  Reeves, Richard, 1936-

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  [Adult] In Infamy, the story of this appalling chapter in American history is told more powerfully than ever before. Acclaimed historian Richard Reeves has interviewed survivors, read numerous private letters and memoirs, and combed through archives…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Desert Exile

  the Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

  Uchida, Yoshiko,

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  [Adult] After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nisei Daughter

  Sone, Monica Itoi, 1919-2011

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  [Adult] Tells the story of a Japanese-American woman growing up in Seattle in the 1930s who was subjected to relocation during World War II.

• Colors of Confinement

  Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II

  Manbo, Bill T., 1908-1992

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  [Adult] In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908–1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings,…Read moreRead more of this annotation